Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 0
Hedgehog and Tortoise know Jaguar will never forget his rhyme, so they decide to swap skills.
Who acts: Hedgehog, Jaguar · What happens: know, not forget, decide, swap, rhyme · To what, where: rhyme, skills · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hedgehog, Jaguar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hedgehog | Hedgehog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Tortoise | cc |
| 3 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Hedgehog | conj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Jaguar | Jaguar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 forget | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 forget | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 forget | advmod |
| 8 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | ccomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 rhyme | nmod:poss |
| 10 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forget | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 decide | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 decide | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 decide | nsubj |
| 14 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 swap | mark |
| 16 | swap | swap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 decide | xcomp |
| 17 | skills | skill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 swap | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Hedgehog and Tortoise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not forget | future | Jaguar | Jaguar's rhyme | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | decide | present | Hedgehog | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | swap not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hedgehog not said here | skills | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rhyme | Jaguar | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.lesson:0.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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